Compound for purifying water.



nmr zn STATES rntrsnr OFFICE.

CARL W. SCHULTZE, .OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE CLARINE COMPANY,

OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

' COMPOUND FOR I URIFYING WATER.

No Drawing.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 16, 1908; Serial No. 448,787,

Patented Oct. 5,. 1909.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, CARL V. SoHUL'rzE,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Compound for Purifying \Vater, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a compound for purifying water. v

The object of my invention is to provide a water-purifying compound so that the same may be prepared by any maker of tablets or, disks and may be used by any -un- Y skilled person in removing pathogenic germs and other foreign matter from water containing sufficient calcium or magnesium salts to react with the chemical employed.

My invention is-particularly applicable to purifying water for drinking purposes, for household use, for laboratory and hospital use, and in general for uses where the presonce of pathogenic .germs or other foreign matter 1s'1n ur1ous. lncldent to the mam purpose of removing pathogenlc germs is the advantage of the removal of the ordinary insoluble substances commonly present in water in the form of filth and silt which, while not possessing the injurious qualities ofthe germs, are, nevertheless, undesirable.

In general terms,my invention consists in the preparation of a tabletcontaining the ingredients'essential to ,a stated volume of water, the constituents'of which in combination with the lime in the water produce flocculent masses or acoretions about the bacteria and other suspended substances, so

'enmeshing them -that they are removable by a rapid filtration; and then'removing such enmeshedsubstances bya method of filtering so simple and sanitar as to render failossible even in the hands of the most unskil ed.

It will be appreciated that, in the employmentof any water purification process for domestic and similar uses' involving chemical action'or reaction, the minimum amount of knowledge or judgment must be left to the user; or, in other words, as ISISOII'IG- times said-ofa machine in the hands, of the I gallon bottle.

unskilled, the process must be fool-proof, or as nearly so as the same can be made.

First of all, then, the question of judgment or skill in preparing the compound must be eliminated, and the question of quantity or measurement of the quantity to be used must also be eliminated. To this end I prepare a tablet composed of sulfate of aluminum,

about four grains; kaolin,'about sixvgrains;

starch, about eight grains. The starch acts as a binder for the tablet. and as a disintegrator when the tablet is moistened.

The method of making the tablet need not be described, since a chemist or tablet maker familiar with the art may make the same, the only direction necessary being that, the

v tablet shall be friable and capable of being used as hereafter described. The definite, fixed unit thus in friable tablet form, is the proper amount of chemical compound to add to an ordinary gallon bottle of water,- the ordinary unit receptacle of the ordinary household. The tablet is then rubbed to acotton the size of an apple placed within the' funnel, and the funnel inserted in a second The -water is now poured from the first bottle onto thecotton, slowly atfirst, andthen to fill the funnel. The filtration is rapid, and the funnel beingkept.

full, the gallon of water is quickly filtered. The funnel is removed, the cotton thrown away, and the water is ready for use.

- I claim:

1. A compound for treating lime bearing I waters which consists of an adapted unit of a soluble salt capable of forming a gelati-v nous precipitate and an insoluble powder of such fineness that the particles will remainsuspended in the water for a considerable length of time. a

2. A tablet for treating lime bearing In testimony that I claim the foregoing Waters which consists of an adapted unit of invention, I have hereunto set my hand in a soluble salt capable of forming a gelatithe presence of two witnesses.

nous precipitate, an insoluble powder of'such CARL W. SCHULTZE. 5 fineness that the particles will remain sus-- Witnesses:

pended for a considerable length of time, ETHEL A. KELLY,

and a binder. f p A. N. MACOMBER. 

